Toothbrush and glass holder



' 7, 1943. w. COHEN TOOTHBRUSH AND GLASS HOLDER Fiied March 28, 1942 INVENTOR Wu LMM (w 5w M; ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 7, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TOOTHBRUSH AND' GLASS HOLDER William Cohen, Bronx, N. Y.

Application March 28, 1942, Serial No. 436,572

2 Claims.

This invention relates to supports for tooth brushes, and has for its main object to provide a device of this character, which will be more efficient and more sanitary than the device at present used for similar purposes.

Still another object of this invention is to provide a tooth brush holder and support of the character indicated, which also will support the usual drinking and rinsing glass and also the container of tooth powder or tooth cream, the rinsing glass being conveniently used also to protect the tooth brushes, and, incidentally, the inside of the drinking glass itself when placed on my support.

Still other objects of my invention will be apparent as the specification of the same proceeds, and, among others, I may mention: to provide a device as characterized hereinbefore, which will be simple in construction and extremely inexpensive to manufacture, making it available to the greatest number of people with the smallest possible cost, and which will be easily and quickly applicable in a bathroom or in another place where tooth brushes ar usually used.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification and accompanying the same,

Fig. 1 is a sectional elevational view of the preferred embodiment of my novel tooth brush and drinking glass holder, and

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, the drinking glass and the tooth brushes shown in Fig. 1 having been removed;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a front view of a specific securing means used with my invention, and

Fig. 5 is a plan or top view thereof, while Fig. 6 is a sectional elevational view of a modiflcation of the invention shown in Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail by characters of reference, and to Figs. 1 to 3, particularly, the numeral indicates the main portion of my device in general, the same being an angular bracket having a vertical leg 1 l and a horizontal branch or leg [2. The vertical leg ll may have an aperture or hole through which the securing means l3 may be applied, whereby the angular bracket I0 is secured on a desired vertical surface I4, being a wall, door of a cabinet, etc.

A circular depression or channel i is provided in the horizontal branch Or support proper I 2. In the circular central portion iii of the support proper l2 enclosed by said circular channel l5 are provided one or more apertures or holes ll through which tooth brushes [8 may be dropped, their handles [9 depending from said support through said holes, and their heads or brushes 20 providing the supporting means for the brushes preventing their slipping through the hole H, as will be understood. A

The usual drinking and rinsing glass 2| may be placed into the circular channel IS in an upside-down position, whereby the same will seal and protect the brushes 20, and at the same time in such a position, it will seal and protect the inside of the glass itself.

A comparatively wider space 22 may be left on the upper leg or support proper l2 between the wall l4 and the channel l5, which spac may be used for placing thereon the usual container of the tooth powder, tooth cream, and the like, as indicated at 23.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I show another method of securing my supporting bracket ID on a vertical wall, which consists in providing a wedge shaped downwardly narrowing member 24 preferably of sheet metal or similar material having inwardly turned channel shaped marginal portions 25 and 26, as shown. A securing screw or other similar means 2! may be used to secure the same on the vertical wall l4.

To be used with such securing and applying means on a wall, the supporting bracket ID will have sides 25a and 26a having downwardly converging inclinations or wedge formation, exactly corresponding to the wedge formation in the channels 25 and 25 of the securing plate 24, and after said plate 24 has been secured on a wall or other surface by the means 21, th vertical leg H of the supporting bracket Ill may be dropped into said channels by its edges 25a and 25a, as indicated by the arrows 28 in Figs. 3

and 4, and it may be removed from said securing plate 24 by lifting it out of the channels 25 and 25 in a direction opposite to the arrows 28, as will be understood.

In Fig. 6 I show a slight modification in the invention indicated in Fig. 1.

In this modification, the vertical leg II is turned upwardly, instead of its downward direcsize than in Fig. 1, and it will be observed that the drinking glass 2| in Fig. 1 is close to the outer side Wall l5a of the channel 5, while in Fig. 6 the opening of the drinking glass Zia is close to the inner side wall I517 of the channel l5.

In my invention, the channel l5 may be made comparatively wide, so that drinking glasses of various diameters may be conveniently placed therein, whereby my device will be better adapted to various conditions.

The bracket H] with its vertical leg H and horizontal leg l2 may be conveniently made of one piece of material, While this is not an essential feature of the invention. The best method of manufacturing it appears to be in stamping it out of a piece of sheet metal and then bending it to the angular bracket shape.

What I claim as new is:

1. In a combination holder for tooth brushes, tooth cleaning material, and cleaning glass, a member of a single piece of .sheet material secured to form a horizontal shelf, an annular channel depressed .in the material of said shelf,

having draining apertures provided in its bottom, and being adapted to receive the edge portion of an inverted tumbler or glass, openings being provided in the circular portion of said shelf, enclosed by said channel, to receive the handles of tooth brushes, said brushes resting on the material of said enclosed portion by their bristles, said shelf having a substantial, fiat, free portion to the rear of said channel, for placing thereon tooth cleaning material, like paste tubes.

2. In a combination holder for tooth brushes, tooth cleaning material, and cleaning glass, a member of a single piece of sheet material secured to form a horizontal shelf, an annular channel depressed in the material of said shelf, having draining apertures provided in its bottom, and being adapted to receive the edge portion of an inverted tumbler or glass, openings being provided in the circular portion of said shelf, enclosed by said channel, to receive the handles of tooth brushes, said brushes resting on the material of said enclosed portion by their bristles, said shelf having a circular front end and two straight side edges reaching a substantial distance to the rear of said channel and forming a fiat, free portion to the rear of said channel for placing thereon tooth cleaning material, like paste tubes.

WILLIAM COHEN, 

